"metagraph is a declarative visualization library built on top of a numpy-like library capable of deferred array computation."

inspired by ggplot2.

requoting claude shannon: "I thought of calling it 'information', but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty'. when I discussed it with john von neumann, he had a better idea. von neumann told me, 'you should call it entropy, for two reasons. in the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. in the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'"

"matplotlib 0.99 is out and it has 3d plotting, finally!"

"[...] a powerful and versatile technique for both rare-event simulation and combinatorial optimisation."

"so woody and pencil are the words to look for when choosing expensive wines from bordeaux."

"canonical correlation analysis (cca) is a way of measuring the linear relationship between two multidimensional variables. it finds two bases, one for each variable, that are optimal with respect to correlations and, at the same time, it finds the corresponding correlations."

... is an illusion. also: compressing james watson's dna to 4mb (dnazip).

python comes with a turtle module ...

very nice illustration of least squares fit.

"this library implements the full binary protocol for the tokyo tyrant 1.1.10 in pure python."

"challenge: explain fourier transforms, w/o math, to a humanities major (me), more clearly than http://tinyurl.com/27n3g … in 1 tweet?" -- fast & fourious.

the book '[...] is intended for a student who, while not yet very familiar with abstract reasoning, is willing to study more rigorous mathematics that is presented in a "cookbook style" calculus type course.'

skimmed "analysis, measure & probability: a visual introduction"; looks great!

'divisa is a multi-dimensional visualization tool [...]. from raw data, the user can interact with the visualization in order to obtain different "points of views" and thus to extract more information from the data.'

await: concurrency control and recovery in database systems.

"to review the probability and statistical [literature] on network models and methods."

"the main content of the tricki will be a (large, if all goes according to plan) body of articles about methods for solving mathematical problems."

2.29.

2008 us political book buying.

"[...] [f#] now has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure."

funny, noticed the books on friday in ibk.

"having run out of sheep the other night, I found myself counting the ways to flip a mattress. earlier that day I had flipped the very mattress on which I was not sleeping [...]"

gapminder-style animated charts put to good use.

"[israel has] decided to cut to the chase and eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles. they’re going all-electric. by 2018."

wonderful survey-review. have to find out about that "constructive recategorization" business, tho.